In Western Europe, the USA and Australia, CLT successfully competes with steel, brick and concrete in selected market segments such as multi-family housing. Interest in using this technology in Poland is also growing. For many reasons. Wooden schools, hospitals, skyscrapers, entertainment halls, airports, and even a gas station or 9-story residential blocks – all this…
Anna Wojciechowska, Head of ESG, Sales and Marketing Director at ROBYG in Gdańsk and Poznań Acting in a sustainable and responsible manner at ROBYG, we have been designing and creating integrated living spaces for thousands of people for many years. We were one of the first developers in Poland to publish an ESG strategy, which…
Sylwia Ziemacka talks to Monika A Debska-Pastakia, circular economy and impact investment adviser, senior real estate executive, CISL, RICS Civil Commercial mediator, PLGBC board member, mentor in Top Woman in RE How are international investors looking at Poland right now? There is a different perspective depending on who you are talking to. Clearly, Poland’s proximity…
Agnieszka Bulus-Trando talks to Ewelina Sowa, Team Leader Retail Poland, IMMOFINANZ. Recently, there has been a lot of talk about ESG strategies or ecology itself as a kind of must-have for business. If so, how can the potential of such activities be used in the context of business optimization in the retail sector? We implement…
If we look around, most of what surrounds us is “real estate” or space indirectly related to it. No wonder then that this space has such an enormous impact on our private, social, political and economic life. It is estimated that Warsaw takes up 10-12% of the value of all investments nationwide, although the total…
Sylwia Ziemacka talks to Hadley Dean, founder od MDC2 about investing in logistics properties in Poland. In 2021, you established the warehouse development company, MDC2. You aim at leading the change in the Polish marketplace by being sustainable, transparent and behaving with integrity. So you refer to the ESG, which is a priority for the…
After a two-year break caused by the pandemic, the MIPIM fai – the world’s leading real estate event – has started in the French resort of Cannes. The prestigious event and forum for the exchange of ideas annually attracts key players, in particular investors, city and regional authorities, architects, developers, funds and banks, companies from…
Adam Białas talks to Michał Sapota, president of Heritage Real Estate Investments, about the key challenges that are ahead of the market. Heritage Real Estate Investments is one of the largest players on the residential real estate market in Poland. The company is not a classic developer, but a type of modern investment fund that…
Agnieszka Bulus-Trando from Poland Weekly talks to Mira Kantor-Pikus, Head of Equity Debt & Alternative Investments from Cushman & Wakefield. PRS in Poland is a relatively new topic compared to the West. What are the differences between PRS in Poland and in the West? The PRS (private rental sector) is the short name of the…
Poles have long preferred to own the place they lived in – only 4% of the population rents a flat. On average, every third European does so. But the Polish institutional rental market, still at an early stage of development, is growing in importance. Attitudes towards renting in Poland are changing, for multiple reasons. One…
The construction industry tends to be a good measure of the condition of any economy and across Europe it is showing remarkable resilience in the face of the pandemic’s effects. According to EUROCONSTRUCT, an independent construction market forecasting network, the level of construction output in 2021 is set at 1,740 billion euros. After a difficult…
The largest privately-owned investment and asset manager in private equity and real estate in CEE, Griffin Real Estate has announced changing its name to Griffin Capital Partners. The name change is accompanied by a refreshed visual identity, underlining the strategic direction towards private equity that the company has already taken. The change also reflects and…
